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The scholar adventurers / Richard D. Altick.
LIBRA Rare PR56 .A7 1987 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel), 1915-2008.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Research.
- English literature.
- Learning and scholarship--History.
- Learning and scholarship.
- History.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Great Britain.
- Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 338 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [©1987]
- Contents:
- Preface to the Ohio State University Press Edition
- Introduction: The unsung scholar
- The secret of the ebony cabinet
- The case of the curious bibliographers
- The quest of the knight-prisoner
- Hunting for manuscripts
- Exit a lady, enter another
- A gallery of inventors
- The scholar and the scientist
- Secrets in cipher
- The destructive elements
- Shades of Mrs. Grundy
- Post-Mortems
- On the trail of Byron
- The search for Sambir
- Discoveries: 'The Book of Margery Kempe'; Medwall's 'Fulgems and Lucres; The poems of Thomas Traherne; The poems of Edward Taylor; The Conway letters; Browning's 'Essay on Chatterton'; The Bronte's childhood fantasies.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1950. With new preface.
- "Cover design, J. Wierdsma Forbes. Illustration, Monica Ice."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-331) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- ISBN:
- 081420435X
- 9780814204351
- OCLC:
- 15550806
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